If you haven’t met our new Valentin Yudashkin Rose, Eau de Parfum, hurry up! Created by a French beauty, the perfumer Delphine Lebeau, this fragrance, fragile and elegant like its creator, will ignite spring in your soul and tell you a story of a woman, totally in love with life.

Delphine Lebeau has visited Faberlic and told us about nuances of the art of perfumery, fashion trends and her own secrets of happiness.

What character for your new creation have?

When I was proposed to invent a fragrance for Valentin Yudashkin’s collection, I spent a lot of time studying the couturier’s masterpieces. His style is inimitable, he is a master of refined, classic style, so the fragrance should follow the idea of lightness and femininity,

I have selected delicate nuances, in sync with tender spring colours. In the beginning you will meet crystal notes of white flowers, pure and transparent. Then the fragrance gradually reveals colour – tender pink and green: such feeling is induced by lightweight notes of pear. In the trail you will hear sensual musky notes – they add depth to the composition.

Wear it as your favourite accessory, necklace or precious bracelet, - on your neck and wrists.

Delphine, have you realized that you want to go into perfumery, early in your life?

My first steps to adult life I made as a medical specialist – my father is a doctor. That was not exactly what I wanted. Since I was a child, I tried to catch scents and adored them – not just fragrances but smells of cut grass, kitchen spices, fruit at a market… Any minor thing can change your life. Almost accidentally I read an article about the mastery of creating perfumes and understood: that’s it.

Let’s try and imagine: your life went another path. What other profession would let you feel in harmony with yourself?

I may have become a cook. Or an architect.

You feel that perfumery is closely related to architecture – a rational, mathematical art?

I think that it is a result of inspiration to start with, although rational issues are a part of any art. For me the beautiful buildings that we see on the streets of Paris or Moscow are a poetry, emotions translated into stone. From this point of view architects and perfumers have many things in common.

Do you always rely on emotions in your work?

Feelings come first. I imagine the person who will wear my fragrance, his feelings are important for me. Technological manipulations with ingredients help me adapt the composition to the image I have invented in the very beginning but I am by no means a chemist. It’s like music – a flight of your soul, while high precision is a must: 1/1000 of 1 g can change all composition.

What inspires you? How do you tune to the creative wave?

Creativity can arise from whatever reason: artfully cooked dish in a restaurant, great exhibition, fashion show… For me it is important to see how others create something – not necessarily from my range. It sets fire in me.

What is your smell of happiness?

The smell of my children, it is unique. And some fresh green notes in the top (smile).

Does time influence perception? What perfumery trends do you consider most important at the moment, what should we expect in the future?

Formerly scents that remind treats were used only in cosmetics for children. Nowadays gourmand notes are frequently added to compositions for adult women. Back in the day everyone tended to total look: girls wanted to be dressed in Chanel or Dior. Now It is not customary to wear one-branded clothes as well as use similarly-names fragrances. We mix everything – a shirt by Chanel, a fragrance by Faberlic, mass-market jeans… Perfumery follows fashion industry, and we have a variety of fragrances now – for different times of day, for different styles.

Everything depends on the social and cultural context. Following American design trends, fragrances started to express gender freedom, jazz rhythms, feministic emancipation. We have become independent – we work where we want, we become top managers, and fragrance collection of each woman may include dozens of options.

I see the great popularity of chypres and return to uniquely designed scents. Generally speaking, our time is the time of contrasts, we are tossed from technological, “metallic” fragrances to woody and spicy, from aggressive and masculine – to floral and feminine. Any opposition will be in trend.

What are your favourite Faberlic fragrances and why?

I love Promenade, may be because it is my first-born baby.

Who is the hero – from real life or fairy tale – you would like to create a fragrance to?

For flying little faeries, like Tinkerbell from “Peter Pan”.

What does femininity mean for you?

Perceptivity, sensitivity, softness and in the mean time perseverance and courage. It is about perspective different from what men possess, emphatic abilities.

Do you have your own secret of success?

Each time I get started, I try to open my heart, tell people as much as I can by the language of fragrances, to make them inspired and really happy.

Text: Anna Tsvetkova